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The error 80040211

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will occur if your ASP CDOSYS

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script cannot make contact with your mail server.

Issue Details

The below error will happen if you cannot make contact with your mail server.

This sometimes happens if you spell your domain incorrectly or put down the wrong domain extension.
domain.org (or) domain.net (or) another type of domain extension.

Make sure your domain is properly defined in your cdosys script header, then try again.

error '80040211'
/mail.asp, line 75

Recreate Issue

If your domain name is domain.net and you write it as domain.com (or) domain.org (or) another domain extension, like the ones below.

[Classic ASP - CDOSYS Email Example]

CFFCS | CarrzSynEdit: | ASP/VBScript

myMail.Configuration.Fields.Item ("http://schemas.microsoft.com/cdo/configuration/sendusername") ="webmaster@domain.com"

Resolve Issue

If your domain is domain.net, write it as is.

[Classic ASP - CDOSYS Email Example]

CFFCS | CarrzSynEdit: | ASP/VBScript

myMail.Configuration.Fields.Item ("http://schemas.microsoft.com/cdo/configuration/sendusername") ="webmaster@domain.net"

As you can tell, we have webmaster@domain.net as out sendusername.